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Attila is a freelance software architect, project manager, consultant, and instructor with more than eight years of experience in the software industry. He developed and managed projects for elite universities, medium-sized companies, multi-national corporations, and the European Union.

He has been developing mobile applications, primarily iOS and Android, for more than five years.

Furthermore, he conducted more than 150+ architecture reviews and audits of mobile apps, scrutinizing and detecting issues & defects for the improvement of these projects.

Regularly, he lectures iOS and Android development to computer science students. Attila rejoices teaching the possibilities and pitfalls of iOS and Android development, giving students the skillset to develop their own high quality apps.

While not writing apps, Attila improves his Chinese and Russian language skills and he travels the world with his beautiful wife.

The Joda Time Android library is very helpful dealing with dates, such as for Android apps handling calendars. In particular for Android developers, this library offers the solution for stale timezone data. This means that if you need your app to change its built-in timezone depending on the location of the user, then this is…

The Jackson JSON Processor is a library for parsing JSON files. It says that it is one of the fastest libraries doing this job. Furthermore, it also offers streaming of JSON (reading and writing). Additionally, it has no other dependency except JDK. Check it out here: http://jackson.codehaus.org/

The RoboGuice library by Google is very beneficial for Android development in general. For example, if helps out for checking “null” when you you getIntent().getExtras()? Also, casting findViewByID() to a TextView is also improved by this library. Check it out here: https://github.com/roboguice/roboguice

The ViewPagerIndicator library helps add more functionalities to the ViewPager class in order to improve discoverability of content. Check it out here: https://github.com/JakeWharton/Android-ViewPagerIndicator

The MapViewBallons library is relatively old (approximately 2 years old). Nonetheless, it is still a quite handy library in order to display ballon-like icons on GoogleMaps views in order to indicate the location of venues. I have done a couple of projects using it. You might do some modifications if some functionalities do not suit…